Volition free.  Dreams.  Kaleidoscopes which almost all share but in unique and individual manners regardless of the efforts of others to invade or intrude upon them.  Our other world.  The one most closely linked to us but which we can’t understand, although we frequently try to and sometimes believe that we succeed. 

The world others seek to invade as well; in order to seek to define us.  The battlefield Sigmund Freud and others long before human history unsuccessfully tried to conquer by insisting on interpreting it and, in seeking to do so merely muddled the world of the woke as did Inanna’s sister in-law Geshtin-anna with respect to a certain dream involving her brother Dumuzi’s exile to the realm ruled by Inanna’s sister, Ereshkigal.  One wonders though if that mightn’t be where old dreams go after they’ve expired.

Logic is replaced in our other world by an analog all its own, one just as powerful but concurrently lacking in power as it has in the lands of the woke.  An ephemeral and ever changing version with traces left like landmines to explode when we least expect them, sometimes exploding unacknowledged, their consequences deftly swathed in mysterious consequences. A place where natural laws, physical laws cannot bind us, although its own undecipherable laws have their own rules, rules we lack the means to understand.

Volition free delight as well as terror drifting free, like manic wills o’ the wisp or dandelions, or perhaps lucid dragons or just poorly fried eggs.  Primordial chaos resting comfortably free of the restraints imposed by selfish order.

Our other world.
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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2024; all rights reserved.  Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution.

Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia (although he has primarily lived in the United States of America of which he is also a citizen). Until 2017 he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. Previously, he chaired the social studies and foreign language departments at the Eastern Military Academy in Huntington, New York. He is currently the publisher of the Inannite Review available at Substack.com; an intermittent commentator on radio and television; and, an occasional contributor to diverse periodicals and publications. He has academic degrees in political science (BA, the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina), law (JD, St. John’s University, School of Law), international legal studies (LL.M, the Graduate Division of the New York University School of Law) and translation and linguistic studies (GCTS, the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies). However, he is also fascinated by mythology, religion, physics, astronomy and mathematics, especially with matters related to quanta, cosmology and cosmogony. He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at https://guillermocalvo.com/.